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Family
History
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Current
Issues
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Anthropology
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Manny and Ysebel come from a large Hispanic-American family.
Their extended family lives near one another within the inner
city.
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Same
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Biology
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Manny
is the oldest of 5 sibblings; he has a 15 year old brother,
a 13 year old sister, a 9 year old brother, an 8 year old brother,
and a 5 year old sister. Ysebel has 3 older sisters and a younger
brother.
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Manny
and Ysebel have a healthy potential for reproduction.
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Child
Development
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As
children neither Manny nor Ysebel had many toys. The schools
were overcrowded and poorly funded.
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Manny's
personality is task orientated with aggressive and defensive
tendencies. Ysebel's is passive aggressive and tends to be
a nurturer.
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Counseling
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None
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None
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Demography
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Non-Mobil, multigenerational family living in same community.
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Same
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Economics
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Both
the Vella and Martinez
families live
well below the poverty level. Albert Vella
has his GED and drives truck but is away for days at a time.
Carmella works at paper mill. George Martinez
works
at a chemical plant and Rosa works at a telemarketing insurance
sales company. All make at or barely above minimum wage.
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This
newlywed couple already have a very difficult time financially
and they strugle to barely make a living. Manny works the day
shift stocking supplies in an electronic equipment warehouse
and cleans floors in the evenings in grocery stores Ysebel cleans
houses when work is available.
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Education
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Manny's
older brothers and sisters are not interested in finishing their
education. Manny's 15 year old brother is reciently involved
in gang secretly from his parents. None of Manny or Ysabel
unmarried siblings are sexually active with girlfriends or boyfriends.
Both families have had relatively high sucessful with the moral
education of their children at home.
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Both
Manny and Ysebel are high school drop-outs with no marriage
preparation. Both married as teenagers. Both have limited understanding
of child development, and limited sex education.
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English
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Maintains
bi-lingual family.
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From
bi-lingual families.
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Gerontology
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Grandparents and Great grandparents who play a large role in
child rearing are respected, but parents are often disrespected.
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Same
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History
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Family
trends and patterns are reproduced over time.
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Ysabel
came from physically abusive family relationship, related to
a father with an alcohol problem. Manny had been raised in
emotionally and verbally abusive home.
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Home Economics
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Both
families live in low income apartments. Each have a diet that
is primarily high fat and sugary foods. Wive's have little
voice regarding the raising of their children. Each have mother-in-law's
that have highest authority in the homes.
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Ysebel
and Manny live with his parents. But they pay for their own
living expences as they are saving money to move out on their
own. Ysebel’s new mother-in-law is very controlling, highly
intrusive, and very jealous of her daughter-in-law.
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Law
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Abusive
behavior is accepted in moderation. Welfare is discouraged.
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Marriage
is highly regarded, divorce is frowned upon.
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Psychology
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Generally,
each family has a healthy interpersonal relationship and communicates
openly.
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Manny and Ysebel rarely sees one another and never communicate
effectively when they are together. In addition, Manny always
sides in opinion with his mother over his wife.
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Public
Health
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Each
family ignore a large variety of inconvenient and painful health
issues because they are uninsured and can pay for only the most
necessary medical attention.
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No
apparent need for public health at this time.
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Religion
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Both
families feel that their religious faith is important to them
and both make the time to be active religiously.
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Both
Manny and Ysebel feel that Christianity is important for their
marriage, but devotional life is nonexistent although church
attendance is consistant.
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Sociology
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Both
sets of parents seem to be in a perpetual state of hostility
towards one another. Both couples often feel unloved and unappreciated.
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Manny
and Ysebel are in the honeymoon stage where everything is bliss.
Their love for one another covers a multitude of faults and
struggles.
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